On this day in movie and book history - Days of Wine and Roses (1962)

Days of Wine and Roses

directed by Blake Edwards,

written by JP Miller,

based on the 1958 teleplay by JP Miller,

was released in the United States on December 26, 1962.

Music by Henry Mancini.

Cast:

Jack Lemmon, Lee Remick, Charles Bickford, Jack Klugman, Alan Hewitt, Tom Palmer, Debbie Megowan, Maxine Stuart, Jack Albertson, Leon Alton, Don Anderson, Carl Arnold, Roger Barrett, Russ Bender, Mary Benoit, Mel Blanc, Gail Bonney, Lynn Borden, Dick Crockett, Russell Custer, George DeNormand, Jennifer Edwards, Ella Ethridge, James Gonzalez, Lisa Guiraut, Chuck Hicks, Barbara Hines, Charlene Holt, Tai Yen Horowitz, Jerry Jensen, Kenner G. Kemp, Rita Kenaston, James Lanphier, Ken Lynch, John Bard Manulis, Mathew McCue, Harold Miller, Richard O'Brien, Doye O'Dell, Pat O'Malley, Alan Paige, Peggy Patten, Jack Riley, Tom Rosqui, Myrna Ross, Doc Scortt, Robert 'Buddy' Shaw, Stanley Sober, Olan Soule, Katherine Squire, Florence Stark, Bert Stevens, Lynn Terry, Arthur Tovey, John Truax, Charles Watts, Charles Wood.

Recommended reading - Day of Wine and Roses

Days of Wine and Roses

by JP Miller.
 
Published by Dramatist's Play Service.
Teleplay first published 1958.
Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0822202816
ISBN-13: 9780822202813
 
Description:
 
In the fast-moving milieu of Madison Avenue, social drinking is almost an occupational necessity, and one that fast-rising young Joe Clay adopts with too ready ease. Unfortunately, the girl he meets and marries shares his proclivity, and while they continue to tell themselves that they drink because they choose to, it is soon apparent that their habit has become a serious problem. But their failure to acknowledge this plunges them headlong into the shattering events of the play a career in shambles, a marriage destroyed, the esteem of friends and family lost, and a child who has become the innocent victim of their obsession. In the poignant ending of the play a spectre of hope arises but, more important, so does a galvanizing awareness of the depth of their torment, and of the lesson which their compulsive self-destruction must have for others.
 

Recommended reading - Days of Wine and Roses

Days of Wine and Roses

By David Westheimer.
 
Mass Market Paperback.
ISBN: B0000CLO9H
Published 1963.
Published by Bantam Books.
 
Description:
 
A story of Brandy Alexander and the insidious way alcohol can destroy a life. Based on JP Miller's play and includes three still pictures on back cover from the movie of the same name.
 

On this day in movie history - Lover Come Back (1961)

Lover Come Back

directed by Delbert Mann,

written by Stanley Shapiro and Paul Henning,

was released in the United States on December 20, 1961.

Music by Frank De Vol.

Cast:

Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall, Edie Adams, Jack Oakie, Jack Kruschen, Ann B. Davis, Joe Flynn, Howard St. John, Karen Norris, Jack Albertson, Charles Watts, Donna Douglas, JoAnne Ludden-Paige.

Recommended reading - Lover Come Back

 

Lover Come Back

by Marvin H. Albert.

Novelization.

ASIN: B000WLAQ8I

Published by Gold Medal.

Published 1962.

Description:

She was only the hottest item on Madison Avenue, that’s all. Carol Templeton, the huckster’s dream, the consumer’s morsel. And the sharpest thorn in the side of Jerry Webster, the slickest operator ever to spend a million bucks on a phony advertising campaign. Carol would do almost anything to beat this handsome devil at his own game – even if it meant bearding the beast in his own bedroom. Lover Come Back is based on the hilarious screenplay by Stanley Shapiro and Paul Henning. Starring Rock Hudson, Doris Day and Tony Randall, the motion picture was produced byThe 7 Pictures Corp, Nob Hill Productions, Inc., Arwin Productions, Inc., and released by Universal Pictures Co., Inc.